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Updated: Oct. 19, 2020 at 7:26 PM AKDT
|By Daniella Rivera
In what Alaska’s Department of Law (DOL) calls the most significant fraud on Alaskans in years, seven retirees lost a combined total of $1.5 Million to a precious metals investment company allegedly targeting elderly Christian and politically conservative investors.
Updated: Oct. 2, 2020 at 8:26 PM AKDT
|By Daniella Rivera
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy continues to insist Alaska law prevents him from talking about how he handled misconduct by the state’s top law enforcement official, even after the release of a nonpartisan legal opinion confirming the law does not require his silence.
Updated: Sep. 24, 2020 at 6:02 PM AKDT
|By Daniella Rivera
Gov. Mike Dunleavy says the law bars him from talking about how he handled misconduct by Alaska's attorney general. Legal experts disagree.
Updated: Jul. 11, 2020 at 12:24 PM AKDT
|By Marlise Irby
APD investigating a suspicious death in Spenard
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Updated: Mar. 29, 2020 at 3:11 PM AKDT
|By KTUU News
A text message making false claims about a National Guard mobilization is continuing to make its way around Alaska and the lower 48 even weeks after being debunked.
Updated: Mar. 3, 2020 at 5:37 PM AKST
|By Jill Burke
After 2 Investigates aired a story about a woman fined for calling police too frequently, police dropped the fines.
Updated: Feb. 11, 2020 at 6:27 PM AKST
|By Jill Burke
If you've ever been charged a higher car insurance premium because you had garaged your car for a season, or left for deployment or other travel and stopped coverage while away, a decades-old Alaska law can help you hold on to your money and prevent rate hikes. Here's what you need to know.
Updated: Feb. 5, 2020 at 6:48 PM AKST
|By Jill Burke
Anchorage is the fifth busiest air cargo hub in the world. Flights are ongoing between the Ted Stevens International Airport and desitnations in China. Here's how the FAA and CDC are asking air carriers to minimize risk and the spread of infection, and how UPS is working to prioritize safety while keeping up with continued demand.
Updated: Jan. 30, 2020 at 6:56 PM AKST
|By Jill Burke
An Anchorage condo owner is on notice by police that she owes them $3,500 for calling too often. Turns out, private residences and commercial properties are only allowed a certain number of calls for police responses before fines kick in.
Updated: Jan. 26, 2020 at 10:10 AM AKST
|By Associated Press
The Seattle Times reports that the Coast Guard has formed a Marine Board of Investigation to determine the causes of the sinking of the Scandies Rose that went down with five of its seven crew members on Dec. 31 in the Gulf of Alaska.
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Updated: Jan. 21, 2020 at 7:47 PM AKST
|By Jill Burke
A frozen culvert has forced a creek off course in Chugiak, causing the water to flood the roadway and driveways in the Forest Park trailer park. Tenants are frustrated and the city and the park's owner are at odds over who should come to the rescue.
Updated: Jan. 7, 2020 at 7:44 PM AKST
|By Jill Burke
Aging bunk beds at the Anchorage Correctional Complex are increasingly in need of repair, causing at least two injuriies in 2019.
Updated: Jan. 4, 2020 at 10:08 AM AKST
|By Derek Minemyer
Law enforcement is investigating the death of John Kellog, age 47 of Wasilla, believed to have died on Dec. 25, according to Alaska State Troopers.
Updated: Dec. 20, 2019 at 4:09 PM AKST
|By Jill Burke
"We had an impact," - Anchorage Police Chief Justin Doll, on 2019's downward trend in property crimes. One of the crime-suppression strategies he says is working may surprise you.
Updated: Dec. 17, 2019 at 6:18 PM AKST
|By Jill Burke
News clippings of a war hero. A family tree. Prayer cards and remembrances. These items were found gently tucked in between the pages of a lost family bible. This is the story of the man who found the book, and the woman who'd hope it would one day make its way back to her.
Updated: Dec. 13, 2019 at 5:19 PM AKST
|By Jill Burke
Full hearts and bellies: how one woman took on school-lunch debt and successfully rallied the Anchorage community, giving dozens of Anchorage families a fresh start by paying off what they owed.
Updated: Dec. 3, 2019 at 5:01 PM AKST
|By Jill Burke
After an accused sexual predator re-offended while on bail and targeted Anchorage teens through social media, we asked a cybercrime expert and an expert on teens and families their advice for keeping young people safe.
Updated: Nov. 21, 2019 at 8:39 PM AKST
|By Jill Burke
Marie Campos died at the age of 37, one of three people killed by gunfire on a rainy November night in Wasilla. Her mother sat down with KTUU to talk about Marie's life, and the hopes dashed by a crime of violence for which there are no arrests.
Updated: Nov. 18, 2019 at 7:05 PM AKST
|By Jill Burke
Federal prosecutors hope to convince a judge to deny bail for 51-year-old Juan Camarena, who turned himself in last week after Alaska State Troopers named him as a person of interest in a triple homicide investigation.
Updated: Nov. 15, 2019 at 2:17 PM AKST
|By Jill Burke
The man Alaska State Troopers sought as a person of interest relating to a triple homicide Nov. 2 is in federal custody. Newly unsealed court documents show officers found ammunition in the home of Juan Camarena, a convicted felon, during their raid of a property in Big Lake.
Updated: Nov. 12, 2019 at 6:47 PM AKST
|By Jill Burke
The Fairbanks Police Department erred when reporting it had three validated hate crimes, according to the department's Chief of Police. Here's how it happened.
Updated: Nov. 12, 2019 at 10:53 AM AKST
|By Jill Burke
The FBI has released its annual hate crime statistics. Here's what they show for Alaska.
Updated: Nov. 5, 2019 at 6:45 PM AKST
|By Jill Burke
From missing woman to a murder victim, the family of Veronica Abouchuk wants her remembered not as a crime victim, but for who she was in life.
Updated: Nov. 5, 2019 at 1:41 PM AKST
|By Hank Davis & Lex Treinen
The identities of the two other deceased individuals found in the Knik Area have also been released. Troopers say they believe the deaths are related and are being investigated as homicides.
Updated: Nov. 4, 2019 at 5:15 PM AKST
|By Jill Burke
Prompted by a concerned viewer, 2Investigates looked into a section of the Glenn Highway buckled by frost heaves. Here's why a permanent fix isn't a priority for state transportation crews.
Updated: Nov. 1, 2019 at 5:15 PM AKDT
|By Jill Burke
When an elderly driver veered off an Alaska highway in 2017, 911 rescuers never found him. Here's what went wrong.
Updated: Oct. 22, 2019 at 7:10 PM AKDT
|By Jill Burke
Hawaii vacations and thoughtful gifts - The wife of accused murderer Brian Smith attempts to reconcile the man she married with the man police say killed two women.
Updated: Oct. 21, 2019 at 6:19 PM AKDT
|By Jill Burke
The arrest of Brian Smith helped solve the disappearance of Veronica Abouchuk as a murder, but years before her death, someone murdered her sister, Martha Toms. How their grief-stricken family is staying strong.
Updated: Oct. 17, 2019 at 9:02 PM AKDT
|By Jill Burke
Police accused him of killing a women in a hotel room and video recording the crime. Now, they say Brian Steven Smith has a second, earlier victim, discovered when he confessed.
Updated: Oct. 11, 2019 at 7:57 PM AKDT
|By Jill Burke
Brian Smith hoped to run his own hotel. Kathleen Henry was looking to build a stable life. Police say he killed her, and that a suspicious memory card with video evidence helped them solve the case. Here's what we've learned in the days since they announced Smith's arrest.
Updated: Oct. 8, 2019 at 9:23 PM AKDT
|By Jill Burke
Could an incinerator hold the key to cleaning toxic soil? How a company in Fairbanks is taking on the challenge, and why some citizens remain skeptical of the project.
Updated: Oct. 7, 2019 at 6:20 PM AKDT
|By Jill Burke
They'd lost their loved one to a domestic violence killing. The loss was hard enough to bear without the body of Julian Meyers being held in limbo. Finally, after nearly nine months, the family got to say a final goodbye.
Updated: Sep. 17, 2019 at 4:21 PM AKDT
|By Jill Burke
Family members say that a local funeral home threatened to dispose of the body if they didn't pay for services, including some they didn't ask for and others the state should have paid.
Updated: Sep. 13, 2019 at 2:23 PM AKDT
|By Jill Burke
ASD contradicted the statement of the referee who said that she was never asked for an explanation from the district about her controversial call to disqualify swimmer Breckynn Willis.
Updated: Sep. 12, 2019 at 2:04 PM AKDT
|By Jill Burke
The debate over how best to influence modesty and properly worn attire in competitive swimming has become a national discussion. Here's why.
Updated: Aug. 13, 2019 at 1:50 PM AKDT
|By Jill Burke
Ed Herring was so stressed out when first released from jail, and with nothing but the shirt on his back to his name, he considered going back. With help, things are looking up. How he turned his transition from inmate to parolee into a success story.
Updated: Jul. 24, 2019 at 6:22 PM AKDT
|By Jill Burke
Kandi Rohr got in touch with 2 Investigates through a relative who was worried about her housing conditions. We checked things out. Here's what we found.
Updated: Jul. 18, 2019 at 9:32 PM AKDT
|By Jill Burke & Lex Treinen
According to the AFD, calls have increased from 68,677 per year in 2002 to 127,940 in 2018 -- without any extra staff.
Updated: Jul. 11, 2019 at 6:22 AM AKDT
|By Jill Burke
Detectives Mary Ferguson and Ryan Silva spoke up about harassment and retaliation within the Sitka Police Department. Then, they got demoted to patrol. Here's why they say they'll defy orders to return to work on July 15.
Updated: Jul. 3, 2019 at 1:32 PM AKDT
|By Gilbert Cordova
The National Transportation Safety Board released the Preliminary report for the deadly plane crash near Johnstone Bay Southeast of Seward.
Updated: Jul. 3, 2019 at 7:04 AM AKDT
|By Gilbert Cordova
A 42-year-old man from Wasilla died in Palmer Alaska State Troopers say. Right now an investigation is underway to find out what happened.
Updated: Jun. 26, 2019 at 6:28 PM AKDT
|By Jill Burke
Slow down! Here's why road experts really mean it.
Updated: Jun. 25, 2019 at 1:25 PM AKDT
|By Gilbert Cordova
An inmate at the Sand Point Jail died unexpectedly after experiencing a medical emergency at the facility.
Updated: Jun. 25, 2019 at 8:31 AM AKDT
|By Gilbert Cordova
Alaska State Troopers have found the remains of a man who went missing back in 2018 after a suspected boat crash.
Updated: Jun. 17, 2019 at 8:56 PM AKDT
|By Jill Burke
Here's what we know about a 21-year-old accused killer from Indiana, who was thousands of miles away when someone else kidnapped and shot 19-year-old Cynthia Hoffman on the outskirts of Anchorage, Alaska.
Updated: Jun. 11, 2019 at 10:54 AM AKDT
|By Gilbert Cordova
The Anchorage Police Department have identified Darin Schilmiller as a person of interest in the murder of Cynthia Hoffman earlier this month.
Updated: Jun. 5, 2019 at 7:42 PM AKDT
|By Jill Burke
A missing 19-year-old, the web of lies that followed, and a father's quest to find his daughter: this is the story of a search that ended in murder, and a plea for justice.
Updated: May. 30, 2019 at 7:01 PM AKDT
|By Jill Burke
Wondering what crimes are happening on your campus? This database puts the facts at your fingertips.
Updated: May. 24, 2019 at 7:41 PM AKDT
|By Jill Burke
As investigators dig deeper into the past of a foster father accused of abuse, new questions emerge about his history at an elementary school in Wasilla -- a school already rocked by recent abuse allegations.
Updated: May. 23, 2019 at 7:47 PM AKDT
|By Jill Burke
The Anchorage brigade of Code for America has developed a program to remind defendants about upcoming court dates. Here's how it works, plus a look at other ways this group of volunteers can help keep you better informed.